The tariff question in the gilded age; the great debate of l888
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Hardcover. xxiii, 190p., illustrated with contemporary political cartoons, dj. More
Cat.No: 41407
1880s
Select Readings for Public and Private Entertainment; Containing Choice Selections of the Most Pathetic, Gay, Humorous, Heroic, Sublime and Patriotic Speches and Poems. Accompanied by Explanatory Notes, together with Appropriate Elocutionary Instructions, the Whole Adapted to the Purposes of Improvement in tyhe Art of Reading and Speaking. Illustrated.
Chicago: Standard Publishing Co., 1890. Hardcover. 519p., paperstock is somewhat acidic and toned and not yet fragile, texts are illustrated with a number of vignette woodblocks; reprint of an 1885 first issue, hardbound cased into 9x6 inch grey cloth boards decorated in black and titled gilt. A generally good copy;..... More
Cat.No: 183589
Democratic evidence for Democratic workingmen. European wages. 'God save America from such wages.'
N.pl. The Republican League of the Untied States, 1888. 4p. campaign brochure, 4.5x6 inches, lightly worn, 1/2 inch closed tear through all pages else good condition. No. 2. More
Cat.No: 57137
Large fortunes; or, Christianity and the labor problem
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. 88p., first edition, minor pencil marginalia, original cloth binding slightly soiled with minor edgewear. More
Cat.No: 62421
The Greenback-Labor movement in Pennsylvania
Bellefonte, PA: Pennsylvania Heritage, 1966. Hardcover. vii, 141p., small stain on front board, old price sticker on rear board else very good in cloth covered boards. No dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 10597
![Cat.No: 265079 The quick or the dead? [Inscribed to Edgar G. Sisson]. Amelie Rives](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/265079.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1619060618)
The quick or the dead? [Inscribed to Edgar G. Sisson]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1888. vii, 255p., hardcover, title page separated but still present. Inscribed by the author (as Amélie Troubetzkoy) to Edgar Sisson in 1916; signed on title page as Amélie Rives, with her newspaper obituary pasted on facing page. Sisson, a former magazine editor (most recently at Cosmopolitan), had joined..... More
Cat.No: 265079
Inquirendo island
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886. Hardcover. vi, 347, vi p., first edition, original cloth binding, spine slightly sloped, small sticker and previous owner's name on title page. Utopian novel, author was interested in establishing a religion of science. "Satire on religion, mathematics is the religion." *Sargent p. 37... More
Cat.No: 129851
The Obsolete Necessity; America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900
Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1976. Hardcover. xiv, 239p., illus., shelfworn dust jacket. Pp. 181-213 includes a very useful annotated bibliography. More
Cat.No: 1661
American Popular Stage Music, 1860-1880
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. Hardcover. vi, 284p., illus., very good condition. No dust jacket. Revision of the author's 1977 thesis. Studies in Musicology. More
Cat.No: 300237
The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen, Switchman's M.A.A., and action taken by Order Brotherhood R.R. Brakemen, Order Railway Conductors, and Knights of Labor. The great dyanmite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C.H. Frisbie; forty-seven years on a locomotive.
Aurora, Ill. Press of Bunnell and Ward, 1889. 480p., illus., edges of cover very badly worn, hinges reinforced with old cloth tape, internal soiling and staining, a crack developing in the textblock. More
Cat.No: 37983
The anti-Chinese movement in California; with a foreword and supplementary bibliographies by Roger Daniels
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Paperback. 131p., very good in wraps. Reissue of the 1939 edition, with Daniels' foreword and bibliographies, small price sticker on rear wrap, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 195326
The true American policy. Protect labor: an address to the working men. To which are appended statements showing the increase of manufacturing industry and wealth under a protective tariff, rates of wages and cost of living in Europe as compared with the United States, etc.
Washington: Association of American Economists, 1884. Pamphlet. 11, [5]p., wraps slightly chipped on the edges, paper slightly browned, neatly ex library. Sanial, 1836-1927, was pioneer American Marxist and an early leader in the Socialist Labor Party, and later in 1903 joined the Socialist Party. More
Cat.No: 120676
Show us the Father
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1888. Hardcover. 170p., neatly ex library (no external marks), original Kerr cloth binding. Collection of Unitarian sermons. The lead minister, Savage, gained notoriety for unqualified defense of evolution (see Allen Ruff's 'We called each other comrade,' Charles H. Kerr & Company, radical publishers). Kerr..... More
Cat.No: 115403
Labor and capital are one. Eighth edition
New York: American Bank Note Company, 1886. Pamphlet. 64p., worn wraps with an old tape repair on the front wrap and stamped "uncataloged," no other markings, minor internal handling wear, 4.5x5.5 inches. The tape repair is a glaring one; reading copy only. Lawyer, married to a Vanderbilt. More
Cat.No: 218908
Subordination or liberation? The development and conflicting theories of black education in nineteenth century Alabama
University: The University of Alabama Press, 1977. Hardcover. viii, 214p., first printing, dj. Very good. Light toning to edges and folds of jacket. More
Cat.No: 85785
My shaping-up years; the early life of labor's great reporter
New York: International Publishers, 1983. Paperback. 240p., wraps slightly shelf worn, spine sun faded, else in very good condition, illus. More
Cat.No: 67786
Let us rise! An illustrated history of the Manitoba labour movement
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1985. 150p., oblong quarto wraps, period illus, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 39337
Wind Flowers
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1887. Hardcover. 235p., original 5x6.25 inch brown cloth boards with titling in gilt, boards rubbed, stained from soil, gilt slightly dimmed, top-edge of text block dust soiled, corners bumped and slightly rubbed, front free endpaper torn out, pages mildly browning, minor handling soil on..... More
Cat.No: 286819
Raittius Kansalais-Uskontona: Raittiusliike ja järjestäytyminen 1870-luvulta suurlakon jälkeisiin vuosiin
Helsinki, Finland: Societas Historica Finlandiae, 1986. 312p., wraps, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, very good condition. Text mostly in Finnish, with an 11p. summary in English. Historiallisia Tutkimuksia 134. Study of the temperance movement in Finland from the 1870s to the early 1900s. More
Cat.No: 254605
![Cat.No: 280599 An Appeal [leaflet]. B. W. Terlinde](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/280599.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1646883264)
An Appeal [leaflet]
[Milburn, NJ-?]: National Party, 1885. Handbill. 6x9 inch leaflet issued in the name of Terlinde, the Milburn-based secretary and treasurer, by order of E.H. Gillette, chairman of the National Committee, soliciting funds to promote the organization and its opposition to the gold standard. Faint fold creasing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 280599
![Cat.No: 72549 The open door, by Blanche Willis Howard [nom de plume]. Teufel, lanche,...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72549.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1517357324)
The open door, by Blanche Willis Howard [nom de plume]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889. 436p., 12(publisher's ads), first edition brown cloth boards gilt & black. Hinges cracked, front hinge glued unsatisfactorally, many signs of rough handling. Arch class-conscious dialogue with didactic content and surprising humor. More
Cat.No: 72549
George Sand: along with George Sand by Justin McCarthy, reprinted from The Galaxy for May, 1870
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. Hardcover. viii+278p.+24p.+ads, prefatory note, publisher's original brown decorated cloth, series motif. Head of spine is slightly torn and tail has tears beginning. Front free endpaper has a split along a corner crease. Famous Women Series. Fourth volume in the series. A biography of writer Amantine Lucile..... More
Cat.No: 89449
Charles Galton Darwin 1887-1962. Reprinted without change of pagination from the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, Volume 9, November 1963
London: The Royal Society, 1963. Pamphlet. Offprint: pp.69-85, pamphlet, staplebound in 10x6.5 inch plain printed grey wraps, inscribed briefly by author Thompson on cover. Mildly edgeworn, crimped and dusty, with author's name lightly pencilled on the otherwise unattributing cover and a date-correction in ink on first page of text. Good..... More
Cat.No: 256254
The mission of science: an address [from vol. xxxiii proceedings of the Association]
Salem: Salem Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885. Pamphlet. 29p., 6x9.5 inches, sewn in edgeworn and chipped plain printed wraps. Thurston was an engineer and the Vice President of the Association. More
Cat.No: 159738